Harness-routing protector

Abstract

An object is to provide a harness-routing protector with a simple configuration that can be readily fabricated at low cost and can be readily attached to a harness so that the harness, which has a difficulty in maintaining a bent shape, can be readily routed without interfering with other components within a limited space. In a harness-routing protector ( 30 ) that routes a harness ( 10 ) while maintaining it in a predetermined bent shape so as to prevent it from interfering with other components, a cross-sectionally U-shaped semicylindrical body ( 34 ) has a predetermined bent shape and includes an inner guide surface ( 31 ) and an outer guide surface ( 32 ) that are separated from each other by a gap in which the harness ( 10 ) is fittable and a side surface ( 33 ) that joins one edge of the inner guide surface ( 31 ) and one edge of the outer guide surface ( 32 ) to each other, and both end surfaces and the other side surface thereof are open.

1. A harness-routing protector that routes a harness while maintaining the harness in a predetermined bent shape so as to prevent the harness from interfering with other components,
 wherein the harness-routing protector is an integrally molded cross-sectionally U-shaped semicylindrical body having a predetermined bent shape and configured with an inner guide surface, an outer guide surface and a side surface that is configured by having one edge of the inner guide surface and one edge of the outer guide surface continuous, 
 both end surfaces and the other side surface thereof are open, and 
 the harness is fittable in a gap between the inner guide surface and the outer guide surface, the gap being an opening of the cross-sectionally U-shaped semicylindrical body; 
 wherein the inner guide surface and the outer guide surface of the semicylindrical body have a width in accordance with the number of cables constituting the harness; 
 wherein the width of the inner guide surface and the outer guide surface increases gradually from one end to another end thereof towards an end portion of the harness where the cables thereof diverge from each other. 
 
     
     
       2. The harness-routing protector according to  claim 1 , wherein the width of the inner guide surface and the outer guide surface is set such that a part of the harness is exposed from an opening in the other side surface, and wherein the semicylindrical body is attached to the harness and is tightly secured to the harness by tape wound around an outer periphery thereof. 
     
     
       3. The harness-routing protector according to  claim 1 , which is composed of a plastic material.